Rakuen Tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise (2014)

Rakuen Tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise: Directed by Seiji Mizushima. With Rie Kugimiya, Wendee Lee, Steve Blum, Shin’ichirô Miki. With Earth now left in ruins following the “Nano Hazard,” most of humanity has abandoned the planet they once called home along with their physical bodies and rebuilt their digitalized minds into a society within the cyber universe of “DEVA.” A.D. 2400, DEVA’s central council detects an incident of unauthorized access into their mainframe. Someone on Earth was trying to hack into the system. The only information DEVA was able to retrieve was that the hacker referred to themselves as “Frontier Setter.” To investigate the mysterious hacker’s motives, the high officials of DEVA dispatch System Security Third Officer Angela Balzac to the Earth’s surface. Equipped with a prosthetic “material body,” Angela attempts to make contact with a local agent Dingo, but what awaited her instead was a swarm of Sandworms now infesting the Earth’s surface. Angela intercepts the gruesome pests with her exoskeletal powered suit Arhan. Will Angela and Dingo be able to find Frontier Setter on this devastated planet? Their journey to explore the secrets of the world will begin now…!

“First, the animation is undisputed as a masterpiece, itu0026#39;s a combination of hand drawing and 3D modeling, and the music is one of the best of all anime. Gen Urobuchi did a perfect on writing the plot, even though itu0026#39;s completely different from his original style, you will understand if you watched any of his other works. The story is more emotional and more meaningful than any of you had thought. It has multiple themes, and the most protruding one is about freedom. Whatu0026#39;s the true freedom? Is it the approach of physical freedom release from pain and death? Or is it social freedom, where people get to keep their individuality? In the story, DEVA was illustrated as a utopian, but itu0026#39;s not. Thereu0026#39;s no privacy, the government gets to know everything that youu0026#39;re doing, and everyone is forced to follow the order and decision from the authority figures. Disobedience could end in ephemeral isolation, where death isnu0026#39;t an option.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNormally, I will give it a 9, but itu0026#39;s rating is too low for me to do so.”